Photos from Utopiales and Paris

And what I call our “Ellen Datlow Special,” featuring the storefronts of Paris (couldn’t help but think of her since we know how much she likes to shop). We spent a day and a half just walking around, deliriously happy to be exploring…

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I don’t know about anyone else but…that first sculpture creeps me out. It’s nice and artistic and I’m sure it’s beautiful…but I’m seriously uncomfortable right now…but maybe that is what the artist was shooting for :S

Paris is one of my favourite cities. I can wander from dusk till dawn and not for one second be bored. There’s a real intimacy to the city (its size) as well as a self-awareness of its own mythology. Glad you enjoyed your time.

Hey–and thanks for the greetings from Greece! Very nice to meet you and I should be in touch soon.

JeffV

About Jeff VanderMeer

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Jeff VanderMeer's most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), released in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Foreign rights have sold in 17 countries and the movie rights have been acquired by Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions. His latest nonfiction books include Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image). His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Atlantic.com, Vulture.com, and the Los Angeles Times. VanderMeer recently taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and has lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress. You can contact him at pressinfo at vandermeercreative.com. (Author photo by Kyle Cassidy.) More...